The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A labyrinth of Facebook groups and right-wing media After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. And while the convoy itself may soon be broken up by the Canadian government, those online pathways are much stickier. Photo by Steve Russell / Toronto Star via Getty Images.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

People are urged to BUIDL, pronounced “biddle,” a play on Bitcoin’s HODL meme. In 2019, Polis signed into law the “Colorado Digital Token Act.” He gave an enthusiastic performance, opening with an old meme by singing “hey, hey, hey” to the crowd and getting the crowd to sing it back. BUIDL is about building things.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Governing. ? Inside the group, they’re posting hateful memes and misinformation, while commenters share support for neo-Nazis. Lawmakers in New York proposed a new law that would prohibit police from using geofence warrants as protests continue to grow. Cat Zakrzewski / The Washington Post ). Knight Foundation).

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Governing. ? Turkish lawmakers passed legislation requiring social media platforms with over one million daily users, including Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube , to open offices in Turkey and comply with government demands to block or remove content hosted on their platforms. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing A.K.P.

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Futurism

MARCH 6, 2025

At the top of every crypto bro's mind is the so-called " GENIUS act ," a bill meant to define and regulate the government's definition of " stablecoins ,"which are digital currencies tied to real-life ones, like the US dollar. Carter was speaking as basic crypto legislation struggles to gain serious traction in the US Senate.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

becoming a meme on this week’s episode of The Vergecast. But also, you’ve kind of become a meme. NP: You’re a meme! MK: As all good memes should be, it’s authentic, right? You are a meme, so that’s important. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Ed Markey: Thanks for having me on. We’re a tech site.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This, combined with other Trump-affiliated meme coin failures, like $MELANIA and the Argentinian President Javier Milei-promoted $LIBRA, has removed billions of dollars from the crypto market. SEE ALSO: Crypto scammers are using Elon Musk's DOGE to defraud people However, for most average investors, $TRUMP was a loss.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

government to purchase and hold a variety of digital assets in a strategic reserve fund, an announcement that highlights Trump’s growing attempts to use volatile cryptocurrency prices as a barometer of his public support. government has previously seized in law enforcement actions.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

So far the US government has not formally stated its case. Governing. ? The analysis, by Sensor Tower, focused on government-endorsed apps in countries including Australia, France, Germany, and India. Many are funded and operated by government officials, political candidates, PACs, and political party operatives.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Governing. ?

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 18, 2025

Unwise government policies were not merely stymying cryptos profitability but American innovation writ large. And if America did not reign supreme, the Chinese Communist Party would be able to impose its much darker, more totalitarian view of global governance upon the world. They were all sentient on January 6, 2021.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

This is interesting because, as Jason Del Rey notes at Recode , when it comes to government relations Amazon has been perhaps the most arrogant company of its peers : Despite this growing scrutiny from politicians and the public, Bezos’s company has openly flaunted its power over the last few years. Governing. ?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

Perhaps convinced that the JD Vance couch memes cost them some swing voters , prominent Democrats like Governor Gavin Newsom of California kicked off the second Trump era with misguided appeals toward bipartisanship.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

Governing. ? The move escalates Silicon Valley’s battle with Washington at time when government officials are still threatening to break up large companies. But some pieces of content, like memes and videos, can be difficult for AI to parse. Data from The New York Times. Test data from The COVID Tracking Project.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Look close enough at any system of law or content moderation and it can start to feel arbitrary, but Apple’s has proven to be particularly vulnerable to criticisms. Governing. ? His newsletter, Bnet, is a reliably sharp and entertaining guide to trending memes that you may or may not have already encountered. Subscribe to Bnet.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Maybe your reaction is that’s terrible, we should get rid of the law that makes all that posting possible. Governing. ? The Indian government banned TikTok , along with 58 other apps developed by Chinese companies. But while the attack has become a kind of resistance meme, it’s unclear whether the hoax actually worked.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

In images that will haunt our republic for generations, Trump’s crazed supporters terrorized our elected representatives and their staffs and forced them to evacuate the seat of American government. Formally responsible to protect constitutional government? CBS News reports that four people died in the ensuing chaos.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Governing. ? Data from The New York Times.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency , saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services. However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.

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